Performance-measure bureaucracies deliberately spread anxiety to erode professional autonomy

Evidence

This isn’t an accident: it’s the real aim of these measures. Education has been corralled into naturalising and intensifying capitalist competition; it’s easy to forget, for example, that league tables were only introduced relatively recently. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2215

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Education reform framed as efficiency actually aims to erode teacher autonomy and spread anxiety — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2215; Managerial surveillance techniques in education deliberately spread anxiety and erode teacher autonomy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2215; Managerialist bureaucracy works as intended by weakening labour and worker autonomy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1493 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Managerial surveillance techniques in education deliberately spread anxiety and erode teacher autonomy #exemplifies (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2215
• Managerialist bureaucracy works as intended by weakening labour and worker autonomy #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1493
• Performance bureaucracy functions as discipline, not efficiency improvement #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1659
• Fear, stress, fatigue, and ambiguity erode officers’ bias-override capacity #expands (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 409
• Power-holders’ anxiety displays read as bias and reproduce the very inequality they fear #complicates (0.72) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1372